The Rashtrakutas and their Times c10.16

c10.16

Idar grant of Amma I of the eastern Chālukya dynasty refers to a 12 years' war waged by Vijayāditya II with the forces of the Raṭṭas and the Gaṅgas⁷ sometime between c. 799 and c. 843 A.D. This war took place in the beginning of his career and we have seen how Govinda III, who commenced it, was successful in his own time.⁸ The later period of this war coincided with the early years of the reign of Amoghavarsha, when there was complete anarchy in the Rāṣṭrakūṭa empire. At this time, Vijayāditya must have carried everything before him. V. 13 of the Begumra plates of Indra III states that Amoghavarsha I raised the glory of his house that had sunken deep in the Chālukyan ocean;⁹ this statement no doubt occurs in a late record, but there is nothing improbable in Vijayāditya having fully exploited his successes by helping the rebels to oust the boy-emperor, whose father had put him to the humiliation of being compelled to cleanse his court-yard. Nay, the rebellion itself may have arisen as a result of Vijayāditya's successes.